Month November 2007

Sacrifice

And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda (the hospital ship returns to Australia during WWI) So they collected the cripples, the wounded, the maimed And they shipped us back home to Australia The armless, the legless, the blind, the insane Those…

Fuel cell trains

Hydrail technology – electric railway propulsion using onboard hydrogen fuel cells – is poised to replace both diesel electric locomotives and trains powered by track electrification. It will happen much faster than it took diesels to supplant steam locomotives. Wow.…

Respect: What comes next

Excellent overview of the choices now facing the Respect Party, sans any SWP influence. Choices: Form a real Left party or get subsumed by monied interests and lose relevance.